Research Engineer, Robotics Evals
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HUDRobotics AI
Remote (Asia), Remote (North America); open to remote candidates who can work hours that 70-80% overlap with either San Francisco or Singapore time zones., 70-80% overlap with either San Francisco or Singapore time zones.Full-Time
Salary80,000 - 175,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PythonData Analysis
Requirements
- Have experience in robotics, robot learning, embodied AI, or closely related multimodal research.
- Be proficient in Python and have experience building data processing, analysis, or evaluation tools.
- Be able to translate research questions into dataset specifications, experiments, and measurable quality criteria.
- Have a strong understanding of what makes robotics data useful for training or evaluation and where it can be misleading.
- Show attention to detail and the ability to identify subtle errors, coverage gaps, and failure modes in complex data.
- Have experience building research tools or pipelines without a fully prescribed roadmap.
- Experience with robot trajectories, demonstrations, video, sensor data, simulation, or other multimodal robotics datasets is an advantage.
- Experience with imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or vision-language-action models is an advantage.
- Early-stage startup experience and communication skills for cross-team and cross-time-zone collaboration are advantages.
Responsibilities
- Research data needs for robot learning and physical AI systems and translate them into dataset and evaluation specifications.
- Define data schemas, annotations, ground truth, and quality standards across robotics data types.
- Design collection and review protocols for external data providers.
- Build tools and validation workflows to audit datasets, identify quality issues, and give providers actionable feedback.
- Run experiments and analyze model behavior to assess how data quality, coverage, and structure affect performance.
- Collaborate with research and engineering teams, and when needed with data vendors and buyers, to improve robotics data offerings.
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